Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scarcely another novelist whose taste for the exotic mystery of much infinities has carven a readable story. Quite in this older, manner Mr. Merritt has harked back to Ancient Babylon and spun an interesting and curious, if not so successful, fantasy. Unfortunately the latter's hero makes his first blow in a luxurious apartment in contemporary New York and after demolishing an archeological monolith from Babylon, is whisked back a score of centuries without the slightest warning. He finds himself on a fated galley, the Ship of Ishtar, peopled with two hostile factions factions, the puppets of contending deities. From...
...Brown Herald regards the action as "a blow that adroitly puts to flight the false hopes we fostered for the future of athletics". The comment goes...
...comes a blow that helps shake the cobwebs from our brains, shatter the illusions that clouded our reason, and adroitly puts to flight the false hopes we fostered for the future of athletics. Football is to become an even larger source of revenue for great universities, a more important factor in the commercial life of institutions for the development of 'educated men' and leaves still farther behind its career as a great game, when played for sport, before tainted with professionalism...
...places on the squad. At the same time word was received from Ithaca that MacNeil, who won the mile in the triangular meet last year, his been placed on probation and will not be able to compete. The loss of the star Ithacan distance man is a serious blow to the hopes of the Cornell squad. Coach Hillman also announced the Green squad last night...
...with the abolition of compulsion. In the recent past, daily services were worse than a joke-blasphemy under the name of religion. The men would cough, read books and magazines and talk with one another. Even during the Sunday services . . . there was always the feeling that the lid might blow off at any time. . . . I would rather have 50 interested men coming here willingly than 1,500 coming because they have to and sitting through the services mad." Thus Rev. Roy B. Chamberlain, writing last week in the Boston Herald upon the effect of a ruling (TIME, Oct. 19) that...